Hey, do you remember "flash mobs"? The creator of the flash mob (though not term itself), Bill Wasik is an editor at Harper's magazine. He writes an perfect post-mortem of the fad in the a recent issue of said magazine, which is available in installments at it's website here.
It's like a big long fuck you to hipsterism, in terms of deindividuation. The long piece on the Milgram experiments in the second part of the essay is especially rewarding.
You've got to love that the (then still anonymous) Bill Wasek answered questions about his occupation with "I work in the culture industry". (link: my own)
Speaking of blithely tossing around titles of Adorno books, Japan is go.
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